Thames Water boss says leakage targets 'not realistic'
Telling the public to save water while this wasteful profit-obsessed corporation leaks 570 million litres of treated drinking water every day is offensive. "There is nothing 'realistic' about accepting sewage pollution as inevitable. And if we're not prepared to pay market rates, then they won't come to us and they won't stay with us."He said he understood public anger towards the water industry, but thought it sometimes went too far."We do have physical assaults of our staff, verbal abuse.
- ▪Telling the public to save water while this wasteful profit-obsessed corporation leaks 570 million litres of treated drinking water every day is offensive.
- ▪"There is nothing 'realistic' about accepting sewage pollution as inevitable.
- ▪And if we're not prepared to pay market rates, then they won't come to us and they won't stay with us."He said he understood public anger towards the water industry, but thought it sometimes went too far."We do have physical assaults of our
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Thames Water boss says leakage targets 'not realistic'<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, Watch: Simon Jack presses Thames Water boss on pollution targetsBySimon Jack, Business editor and Shanaz Musafer, Business reporterPublishedJust nowThe boss of Thames Water has claimed targets the company has been set over things like leakages are "not realistic".Thames has been criticised for its performance in recent years following a series of…
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